Semester 2 Roundup

Short Film 

   This project was our final project in Exploring Animation. Is took around a month to do it and it was supposed to be around 5 minutes long. So far we haven gotten feedback yet. But, I think our biggest challenged was between our director and the rest of the team.  Our team agreed that our director kept us out of the loop on purpose and tried to do everything her self. So far we haven't been any feedback yet but I can tell that this project needs some work. I was excited to do this but overall this was probably one of the worst projects I have done.

      Most of our time was spent out of the loop or waiting for film dates. I'm going to be completely honest and say that our group didn't really have anything to do during class as our director went behind our backs and edited the entire thing without notifying us she was doing so. I think however the funniest thing was that Animation actually helped me out my editing skills.

Technically I was the editor however I didn't get to do much editing. I also din't have much space to edit and write as our director decided that any other script was would not work and that her's was the best.

I think I should have tried to get more involved with this project. Since one decides to do all the work without telling us. However I worked well with the other members of the group.

Movie Trailer

    This project project was a small recreation of a movie trailer we did. This took us a couple of weeks, and I think we did a pretty good job. I worked with the boom mic and It pretty cool. The biggest challenge we faced was getting all of the actors. As you can tell from the video. I think we changed some audio cuts making it a voice over instead of the audio so all my work was for nothing. I think if we managed to finish this, it would have been a great video.

     We mostly used our spare time doing pre-production, including storyboards scheduling and other things.  This ended up taking a while so we didn't have much time. We had to film after to school so that gave me a ton of filming experience. As well as even thinking about shots and pans when watching movies.

I did the script, and this allowed to become more confident when writing. I learned about organizing the script so that an actor can know whose part is whose. As well as organizing the outfits and color coating the lines and actions.

    I used my strengths by trying to doin the script as I'm generally good at telling a story however I'm not the best drawer. I think the thing I need to work on the most editing as that is something I want to hone my skills on most.

Summary

My favorite part was working with people as well as editing videos.  I think next year I'm going to try and put in more effort in editing and getting to know more people.  I think I learned that going into entertainment was the right idea. And I think my goal would be to challenge myself with more difficult work.